ine," He, referring to the date of the advent of the
promised Revelation, has explicitly written, "ye shall attain unto all
good." "In the year nine, ye will attain unto the presence of God." And
again: "After Hin (68) a Cause shall be given unto you which ye shall come
to know." "Ere nine will have elapsed from the inception of this Cause,"
He more particularly has stated, "the realities of the created things will
not be made manifest. All that thou hast as yet seen is but the stage from
the moist germ until We clothed it with flesh. Be patient, until thou
beholdest a new creation. Say: 'Blessed, therefore, be God, the most
excellent of Makers!'" "Wait thou," is His statement to Azim, "until nine
will have elapsed from the time of the Bayan. Then exclaim: 'Blessed,
therefore, be God, the most excellent of Makers!'" "Be attentive," He,
referring in a remarkable passage to the year nineteen, has admonished,
"from the inception of the Revelation till the number of Vahid (19)." "The
Lord of the Day of Reckoning," He, even more explicitly, has stated, "will
be manifested at the end of Vahid (19) and the beginning of eighty (1280
A.H.)." "Were He to appear this very moment," He, in His eagerness to
insure that the proximity of the promised Revelation should not withhold
men from the Promised One, has revealed, "I would be the first to adore
Him, and the first to bow down before Him."

"I have written down in My mention of Him," He thus extols the Author of
the anticipated Revelation, "these gem-like words: 'No allusion of Mine
can allude unto Him, neither anything mentioned in the Bayan.'" "I,
Myself, am but the first servant to believe in Him and in His signs...."
"The year-old germ," He significantly affirms, "that holdeth within itself
the potentialities of the Revelation that is to come is endowed with a
potency superior to the combined forces of the whole of the Bayan." And
again: "The whole of the Bayan is only a leaf amongst the leaves of His
Paradise." "Better is it for thee," He similarly asserts, "to recite but
one of the verses of Him Whom God shall make manifest than to set down the
whole of the Bayan, for on that Day that one verse can save thee, whereas
the entire Bayan cannot save thee." "Today the Bayan is in the stage of
seed; at the beginning of the manifestation of Him Whom God shall make
manifest its ultimate perfection will become apparent." "The Bayan
deriveth all its glory from Him Whom God shall make ma